dhcpcd-discuss

Hi Roy

I'm guessing that all users with NetComm modem/routers - and
>> probably others - would be facing this problem every time they
>> switch theirs on. Will you please terminate 'dhcpcd' using the
>> '-k' option in future releases?
>>
>
> This is clearly a bug with the DHCP server in your router.
> I have no intention of making -k the default.
>

Just to be clear, I wasn't requesting that *you* make '-k' the default *
within* 'dhcpcd'.  I was simply quoting a request I'd made to the
NetworkManager and Arch Linux bug trackers in the hope that *they* would
terminate 'dhcpcd' differently.


> Any workaround would involve dhcpcd inspecting the ACK from your router
> and rejecting invalid addresses.
>
> So that I can do a good patch, could you please supply a tcpdump of the
> DHCP transaction please? To make one do this in one terminal
> tcpdump -w/tmp/dhcp.cap -s0 -ieth0
> and then start dhcpcd normally in another. Once completed, kill the
> tcpdump process and email me /tmp/dhcp.cap.
>

Thanks for making a patch that'll fix this problem at your end.  There would
be plenty of other affected users, most of whom probably don't understand
what's causing it.  For the sake of privacy, I'll send the TCP dump to you
in a separate email.